Turns out Iceland's domain registry won't act without a court order. Iceland's been known as a safe harbour for free speech in the past, but it's unknown whether the activities of the Pirate crew are covered under that kind of bill. Talking to TorrentFreak, ISNIC said that it won't proactively go and shut down .is domains, "such an action would require a formal order from an Icelandic court". Basically, it looks like the Icelandics consider it the responsibility of the domain owner to follow the rules, not the registry, which is very good news for TPB.

Of course, big media could just up and pursue a court order, but that'd probably be a long and expensive process. So, for the time being, thepiratebay.is it is. [TorrentFreak]